Recipe for a newbie?

Hi guys,

I've done much wine in the past, but I am not familiar with boiling and hops...

does anyone have a recipe that would be a good starting point? I prefer a blond beer, but I hear Duvel is somewhat hard to make. (well, for a n00b).

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Easiest thing in the world is to pick up a kit. Some of them don't even require adding water--with Festa Brew kits you just dump the wort in your fermenter, put in your yeast (if you have a wine whip for degassing use this to help aerate your wort when you pitch), and away you go!

If you are looking for a bit more work/fun you might consider an extract recipe. You would pick up some Liquid Malt Extract (LME) or Dry Malt Extract (DME) from a local retailer then go to town. At that point you would need to buy your own hops for bittering/aroma/flavour. The recipes section of this site will have some extract recipes; if not then google will certainly help you out. If you are feeling quite daring you can add specialty grains to your extract recipe, or even go to a "partial mash" where you would get part of your fermentables from LME and/or DME and the remainder from grains or adjuncts.

If you are sure you will be a long-term brewer it may be worthwhile for you to get into all-grain brewing. There's a good thread on the site here about doing it stovetop, or if you want to do full boils that's another possibility but will require some additional equipment (big pot, maybe a propane burner, etc.).

Anyway, to get around to answering your question, do a search for a SMASH extract recipe and that will be about as simple as it gets! (SMASH means single malt and single hop)

Good luck

I've done extracts in the past.

I'm looking to get into all-grain. I have a friend I am brewing with and he has the equipment.

but thanks for the smash acronym, I'll look it up.

cheers.

I found this one:

11.50 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) 100.00%
2.00 oz Cascade [5.50%] (60 min) 47.5 IBU
1.50 oz Cascade [5.50%] (10 min) 7.1 IBU
1.50 oz Cascade [5.50%] (5 min) 5.9 IBU
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50%] (0 min) -
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50%] (Dry Hop 7 days) -
WLP001 California Ale yeast

Mash for 90 minutes at 149F
Ferment at 67F

5 gal, 75% eff
6 SRM
OG: 1.065
FG: 1.015
6.6% ABV
61 IBUs

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I like Cascade hops, should be good!

I hope you like hops!